List of famous Hungarians

This is just a list of famous Hungarian people that we plan to write about in the future:

István Széchenyi – “the greatest Hungarian”

Kings, princes

Grand Prince Álmos (820 – 854 – 895), leader of the Hungarians before the conquest of the Carpathian Basin, father of Prine Árpád‘s

Grand Prince Árpád (840 – 895 – 907), Hungarians settled down in the Carpathian basin under his rule, his dynasty ruled 400 year long (until 1301)

Stephen I (967 – 1000 – 1038), great-great grandson of Árpád‘s, born as Vajk, adopted Stephen as a Christian name, the founder and first king of the Hungarian Kingdom, under his rule Hungary became a Christian country, established dioceses in Hungary, built the state administration, adopted European customs

Ladislaus I (1045 – 1077 – 1095), the protection of the private property hardened, under his rule Hungary occupied Croatia, which then was under Hungarian rule eight centuries long (1091 – 1918)

István Széchenyi (1791 – 1860), first Minister for Transport, 1848, builder of Chain Bridge, founder of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and several other institutions, reformer of transportation, sport and foreign policy, known as “the greatest Hungarian”

Mindszenty József (1892 – 1975), Cardinal, Arcbishop, became the symbol of the anti-fascist and anti-communist opposition, both the regimes inprisoned him, hided in the Embassy of the USA in Budapest for 15 years after the Revolution

Imre Nagy (1896 – 1958), the leader of the Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet Union, executed after the Revolution, known as “Martyr Prime Minister”

György Békésy (Hungarian-Austrian dual citizen), Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1961, “for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea”

Jenő Wigner (Hungarian-USA dual citizen), Nobel Prize in Physics (shared), 1963, “for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles”

Hanna Szenes(1921 – 1944), martyr, executed by the Arrow Cross regime after capturing her on the Yugoslavian-Hungarian border, she was trained and parachuted by the British Army into Yugoslavia to try to rescue the Hungarian Jews from the deportations, she was tortured, but refused to tell the details of her mission